[Gllug] Mail sorting

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The situation: fetchmail retrieves my email from an ISP's POP3 server 
> and drops it into my machine where I read it using IMAP (netscape if 
> anyone cares). I'm then sorting email into different server-side folders 
> using the client.
> 
> This is quite ugly. I'd much prefer to do the sorting of messages on the 
> (IMAP) server, without troubling the client software. The goal here is 
> that every machine I use to look at my mail should see the same view, 
> and I shouldn't have to duplicate my sorting rules on every client 
> machine. I'm sure there's some clever thing I can do here, but I'm just 
> not familiar with what the various tools do. I didn't set up the server 
> either, but I can make changes to it.
> 
> Should I be looking at fiddling the IMAP server, or some "other" tool 
> for this job?

Sounds like procmail is what you want:

http://www.procmail.org/

Use fetchmail to call it (see man fetchmail and search for procmail).

HTH,

Ben
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